The Thoughtful Vegetable

I'm brain dead, dead, in respiratory failure, or I am semi-vegetative. It's all the same to me. "Vegetative" is a coma, ev...

"How do you get on here?" I was asked. "Carefully! " I wrote back."Ha! This has taken me yrs. I do have 1 finge...

I'm not as scary as this video clip, I posted the following in a group: Before I talked n only moved my head som...

Comment:  "I wish we knew more about the brain back then." (Back when I had my brain injury less was known than now.) ...

" I was in the hospital, unable to speak or move, diagnosed as vegetative, yet I could pay a bill on time and not the payee. (That is ...

I am not using facilitated communication. I think all this stuff up myself. There isn't a second person here. I type all of thi...

I move my "paralyzed" hand consistently. It does sign language (ASL) in the video. I wonder if me doing sign language is relate...

Imagine...a patient goes into the ER with her own equipment and her doctor's cell phone number. (The doctor was on vacation, and...

  "Have you always been this feisty?"   The word "feisty" stuck-out to me. I had never used it. I'd always say...

"A Canadian man who was believed to have been in a vegetative state for more than a decade, has been able to tell scientists that he ...

What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach, so you get what we had here last week which i...